B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6852

660 lybrightness mag 6.24B9V

Also catalogued as HD 168270 · HIP 89684

10,175 K

temperature

6.24

apparent magnitude

114× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

660 years

at light speed from Earth

1.76×

as hot as the Sun

114×

the Sun's light output

-0.29

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6852B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6977 →48 ly apart
93 Her →54 ly apart
HR 6882 →61 ly apart
HR 7067 →83 ly apart
98 Her →99 ly apart
HR 6976 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.